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When I was at school I used to walk along Rusholme Road, up towards Ardwick Green. Some yards before reaching the main road there was a very old cemetery, down a short street on one's right hand side and the big gate was firmly padlocked. Scary to a young school kid!! I understood it to be either a typhoid or smallpox cemetery. Surely the records thereof will be with Manchester City Council.

mine ( bit of the tree im doing at the moment) are all buried at st marys deane but ive as yet been unable to locale the graves - its not far from me but they are buried at the end section and the grass is very overgrown and wet so have to wait for a fine day to search

Just read this post and in regard to the Asiatic cholera which took thousands of lives.I have an ancestor who died of this 15th october 1834,was buried same day at St Leonards church in Padiham lancashire,he was 40yrs of age.Also another ancestor ,who died of Typhoid in 1876.aged 55.Again Padiham.Disease through poverty and poor living accounted for such for these unfortunate people.Young or old.

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